Brownlowia.] 



XXV. TILIACE^. 



291 



Petals entire ; anthers globose or oblong. 

 Sepals combined into a cup. 



Staminodes 5 ; carpels 2-valved 

 Staminodes 5 ; carpels indehiscent, combined, 

 ■winged ....... 



Staminodes o. 



Calyx lobes accrescent, coloured . 



Calyx lobes not accrescent. 



Fruit 3-valved winged .... 



Sepals distinct, free. 



Trees or shrubs ; fruit drupaceous . 

 Wiry herbs or small shrubs ; fruit dry, of 3 to 5 

 cocci, prickly ..... 



Herbs or undershrubs ; fruit a 3- to 5-celled 

 capsule ....... 



Trees; capsule 3-vvinged of 3 to 5 cocci . 

 Tree ; capsule large ; seed with marginal hairs 

 Petals 4 entire. 



Anthers linear ; fruit 4-valved, spiny ; tree . 

 Petals hmbriate (rarely entire) ; anthers linear open- 

 ing by a terminal pore, often with an apical 

 awn or hair tuft ; trees .... 



1. Brownlowia 



2. Pentace 



3. schoutenia 



4. Berrya 



5. CiREWIA 



6. Triumfett.\ 



7. corchorus 



8. Columbia 



9. Trichospermum 



10. Sloanea 



11. El.^OCARPUS 



1. BROWNLOWIA, Roxb. 



Trees or shrubs with stellate or scaly pubescence. Leaves 

 entire, 3- to 5-nerved. Flowers numerous, small, in large terminal 

 or axillary panicles. Calyx bell-shaped, irregularly 3- to 5-fid. 

 Petals 5, englandular, usually pink. Stamens free on a raised 

 torus; staminodes 5, petaloid or linear opposite petals. Ovaries 5, 

 2-ovuled; styles subulate, coherent. Carpels free, 2-ovuled, 

 i-seeded. Species 9, tropical Asia. 



Leaves not peltate, lanceolate, base narrow round 

 Leaves not peltate broad elliptic, base broad 



cordate ........ 



Leaves peltate hairy beneath .... 



Leaves sub-peltate, glabrous very large ; panicles 



large ........ 



Leaves scaly beneath, ovate-cordate 



(i) B. lanceolata 



(2) B. kleinhovioidea 



(3) B. Scortechinii 



(4) B. macrophylia 



(5) B. Riedelii 



(i) B. lanceolata Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Supp. ii. 57; 

 Masters, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 381 ; King, I.e. 99. 



A shrub 4 to 6 ft. tall. Young parts scaly. Leaves coriaceous 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base blunt, above 

 glabrous, dark green, beneath minutely yellowish white-scaly; 

 nerves 6 to 8 pairs, not prominent, 4-5 to 6 in. long, 1*5 to 175 in. 

 wide; petioles '25 to -4 in. long. Panicles axihary or terminal, 

 I to 3 in. long, few-flowered. Calyx '2 in. long, scaly, lobes lanceo- 

 late. Petals longer, oblong blunt, base shortly clawed, pink. 

 Ovary 3- to 5-lobed, pubescent. Fruit carpels distinct, globose, 

 compressed on inner surface, scaly and pubescent, '5 in. across. 

 Seed I. Hab. Common in tidal rivers often in dense rnasses; 

 Singapore, Gelang. Johor, Tehran River. Malacca (Griffith) ; 



